Feature changed by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Feature #311030, revision 5 Title: Add the new ZFS file system Kernel module openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is very cool, ZFS will be available on Linux in a few days and it will have decent performance. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_kqzfs_benchmarks&num=1 http://zfs.kqinfotech.com/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: * ZFS is an Enterprise level file system that many poeple trust with large amounts of data (>100TB) * ZFS is much easier to use than the combination of linux RAID, LVM and EXT4 * ZFS supports checksumming which prevents bit rot. * ZFS supports compression and deduplication * strong support for ZFS will drive new users to openSUSE * Hardware RAID Controllers are adding a layer between OS and hard drives that can be hard to monitor with linux tools. * BTRFS is not yet ready today (it does not support RAID5 and is lacking many other features) * Ubuntu server will have it. Why would you not want ZFS? Discussion: #1: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) (2011-01-10 02:54:26) Why one would not want ZFS? Because it has only seen serious use on Solaris, because that is where the money is. So excuse if I trust Linux implementations of ZFS only as much as the current btrfs. (And just because you did mention it: Ubuntu having something is not a meaningful metric. If anything, it's an indication of what not to do - think of 'startup') + #2: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) (2011-01-10 03:46:37) (reply to #1) + Amen to Ubuntu not being a metric. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311030